AgriFood Capital
- Type
- Enabler
- Location
- 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
- Industries
- Farm management & precision farming, Food processing robotics & machinery, Food waste tech, Food ingredients & products, Bio-energy & biomaterials
- Technologies
- Smart & digital, Biotechnology & sustainable inputs, Platform technology, Agritech, Platform & Service technologies, Processing
About AgriFood Capital
AgriFood Capital is the regional development organization for Noordoost-Brabant in the Netherlands. It brings together entrepreneurs, education, government, and social partners to strengthen entrepreneurship, accelerate innovation, and create new opportunities for the region.
The organization builds on Noordoost-Brabant’s long-standing agrifood base and its strong ecosystem of makers, knowledge institutions, and public partners. It focuses on future growth sectors where that regional DNA overlaps with economic potential: AgriTech, FoodTech, BioTech, and Farma. Through projects, networks, and strategic programs, AgriFood Capital aims to support a strong, future-proof economy and broader prosperity in the region.
Core Values
- Collaboration: The organization consistently emphasizes working together across business, education, government, and knowledge institutions. It sees collaboration as the main way to accelerate innovation and regional growth.
- Innovation: AgriFood Capital aims to stimulate and apply innovation in agriculture, food processing, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Its programs focus on turning new ideas and technologies into practical impact.
- Sustainable growth: The company links economic development with long-term resilience, aiming for a future-proof region that uses resources more efficiently and creates durable value.
- Broad prosperity: AgriFood Capital frames economic strength as the basis for broad welfare, with attention to jobs, talent development, and a good place to live, work, learn, and do business.
Unique Aspects
- Regional development organization for Noordoost-Brabant: AgriFood Capital is not a single-product company but a regional platform that coordinates economic development across municipalities, partners, and sectors.
- Strong agrifood heritage with future-sector focus: It is rooted in the region’s agrifood chain, while actively building new opportunities in AgriTech, FoodTech, BioTech, and Farma.
- Broad partner network: The organization works with companies, knowledge institutions such as HAS green academy and Avans Hogeschool, public bodies, and other regional initiatives to connect local projects with wider networks.
- Strategic agenda 2026–2030: AgriFood Capital states that it is working from a strategic agenda for 2026–2030 to strengthen the region’s economic base and future sectors.
- Part of the Regio Deal 't Goeie Leven: The website identifies AgriFood Capital as a proud partner in this regional collaboration with RNOB, Noordoost Brabant Werkt, the Province of Noord-Brabant, and the Dutch government.